Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robin Williams

I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people.

Robin Williams

I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'

Steve Yzerman

I've been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times, but I don't think I've ever left a memorable, lasting impression on anyone I've ever hit.

Steve Yzerman

I don't know if I've ever had a memorable body check. It's not really part of my game.

William Bernbach

Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.

Walker Percy

The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives...

Wanda Sykes

I was really gifted at being able to construct a joke, but it's like they weren't even memorable, my first jokes, because they were so about nothing.

Sally Field

People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?

Rosalind Russell

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Steve Jobs

Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

Steve Jobs

It's better to be a pirate than to join the navy.

Pearl S. Buck

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

Peter Jacobson

I had one really memorable line. It was all the words you're not allowed to say on the airwaves, so it's one long list of swear words. I knew it anyway, because I was a huge George Carlin fan.

Shelley Berman

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

Stephen Malkmus

Yeah, on the records, the guitars are made melodic, and I try to make it memorable. There's not much just wanking, to be honest - it's mostly melodic parts. I try not to play too many notes. It's just more instrumental music. It's a totally valid criticism if you don't like that kind of thing. It also is maybe a little anachronistic or unnecessary in a certain way.

Stan Lee

A superhero's catchphrase should be like a really memorable advertising slogan. It sticks in your head and you can't stop humming it. And let's face it, superheroes are just really selling themselves as products.

Tallulah Bankhead

I thought I told you to wait in the car.

Tony Robbins

Why wait to be memorable?

Tony Robbins

It's not how long you live, but how you live that's important. Therefore, don't make your life just livable, make it memorable.

Tim McGraw

One of the most memorable live performances of my career took place on the 2002 American Music Awards show when I had to the opportunity to sing with Elton John. I was moved by the way he played the piano onstage.

Tom Clancy

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

Tom Clancy

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

Tom Clancy

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.

Tom Clancy

Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

Tom Clancy

Success will ruin your life.

Tom Clancy

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

Tom Clancy

No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.

Tom Clancy

Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us.

Tom Clancy

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

Tom Clancy

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

Tom Peters

Excellence comes from human beings doing things of value that customers find memorable.

Tom Robbins

How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships.

Steve King

For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds - and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert. Those people would be legalized with the same act.